Having been released over a year ago for Xbox 360 users, Gears of War has finally been brought to the PC, which is fantastic news for PC gamers. I paid £17.90 from PlayTrade on www.play.com in January 2009, and you can now find it for £17.99 on that main Play website itself. Considering the RRP for this game and the price most high-street stores charge for this game is £34.99, play.com once again is the best place to buy games.
Gears of War is one of the best games to have hit the Xbox 360, and the same can now be said about the game on the PC. In terms of gameplay, it is the same as the Xbox version, and follows the same storyline, which in iteself is fantastic.
You are able to perform various manoeuvres such as crouching behind a wall, rolling, and hiding behind walls, which all enable you to combat the enemy more efficiently. You have to fight your way through the storyline with enemies that become progressivly harder and more elaborate.
Grapically, the PC version far surpasses the Xbox 360 version as you would expect; the colours, detail and precision are far greater and as a result you become more immersed in the game. I run this game on a Q6600 cpu, 4GB ram and an 8800GTX KO edition, which handles the game beautifully. I don't believe this game uses up masses of resources compared to a game such as Crysis, so I think that most recent computers would be able to run this game just fine.
The online play is great, and as this is a Window's Live game, you can gain achievements and rewards as you play, something which PC games have lacked compared with their console counterparts.
The only small problem I have is the lack of variety in weapons. I feel they could have included a few more different types of weapons, but this is only a small niggle at an otherwise fantastic title.
Gears of War then, is a great game to have in any gamers collection, and now that it is on PC it has been taken to another level graphically. I would recommend this game as one of the top titles of the year, and one for any gamer to have in their collection.
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